These are ways for anyone with access to the internet to perform an action on behalf of a client and in return get paid for that action. These actions could be data entry, taking a call, creating links, performing social media tasks, the list goes on. They offer the ultimate in flexibility because if you don’t do the work you don’t get paid – if you do you do. They can be dropped and picked up as you wish.

Over the months we have posted these ‘performance’ jobs on our job board but only as and when clients have requested them. As these jobs are always available we have now decided to build an ‘Extra Income’ tab to our jobs section that will simply list the best of these kinds of opportunities that you can join as and when your life allows some revenue time.

We hope to get this up and running in the next couple of weeks and it will only be accessible to hmp members, so things won’t get clogged up on the clients side.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for the new section in the comments, what you’d like to see, details you’d like access to, and we’ll let you know when it’s up and running.

 

In a very dark room, where we keep our web programmers, a new website is being built to promote the ‘Supporting Parents In Business’ campaign as a standalone project.

Using various methods of guilt and hot-flushes we have managed to secure the support of many large firms from both sides of the Atlantic. Part of the deal being that they have to promote flexible work and post their flex jobs on hmp. In return they get a socially responsible pat on the back and the chance to put their logo on the site.

We’re trying to make a ‘SPIB’ badge a must have for business, a way to show that they are a considerate employer and adhere to the principle of flexible working. And we need your help.

We need to show employers that flexible work is no longer a nice extra in todays workplace but something that is integral to the choices a parent makes when choosing a company. As an employee or a customer.

To this end we want you to tell business what flexible work means to you. Take 5 minutes to put your thoughts in order and then sit in front of a webcam and talk.

Introduce yourself, explain your family situation and then give us just a few seconds of how a flexible job would mean all the difference to you and your family.

We’re taking the gloves off. Government and business have danced around the subject for years and concessions have been slow in coming. We have the numbers now, and they’re growing daily. We want your voices to be heard on the subject to apply pressure, to make it a social embarrassment not to offer flexible work, to be a business pariah to both employees and consumers.

You get the idea.

Your videos will be shown on the new SPIB website to give it a human face, real people with real views; to bring flexible work out of the confines of the HR policy review and legislative meetings and show the groundswell of support that flexible work has behind it.

We need to push this now. And keep pushing. I hope you’ll help.

Record a short video of why flexible work is important to you and send the file to spibsite@hiremyparents.com – this is just step 1, we will be calling on you again.

I was reading Seth Godin’s blog post  Career fairs… and how they are the last resort for companies and job-seekers alike, and I realised that the giant job boards on the internet are just the same. A company needs to fill some drone position so they get HR to just throw up a description and chuck $400 at monster.com or careerbuilder.com. They don’t have to put any effort in, as long as you can string a sentence together you’ll do. Hell, all these big job boards even share the same database – stick the job on one it goes to the many.

If a company has a real ‘career’ opportunity it goes specific. It goes to job boards that specialize in certain skills or industries – that’s where you get ‘that’ job. Better still companies are now finding employees on social sites such as facebook and LinkedIn, where they can find the person they need through relationships and referrals.

If you want to be truly happy in a job you’re going to have to find it where they put the jobs you want – not where they put the jobs they want you to fill. (I made a tongue-twister)

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Residual Income has got a bit of a bad rap over recent years with certain unsavoury cabals of the internet world jumping on the band-wagon and using it to flog second rate products and multi-level marketing schemes, but the principle still holds water.

If you’ve found yourself trying to earn money from home or with a flexible job it can be very frustrating – the jobs don’t come quick enough or your talents just don’t match the skills required. Making a residual income online is really hard to set up but once done you can make it fully automated and then carry on finding a day job while the bills are getting paid.

Keep an eye out in the members hub for a deal we’re currently working on, for our members, that should make creating a residual income online a great deal easier and less tech orientated. In the meantime, have any hmp members had any success stories recently?

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